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How To Install Fox Body Mustang Front Sway Bar Mount (82-93)
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Published on 2020-09-16
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Restore the suspension on your Fox Body with 5.0 Resto's 1982-1993 Mustang front sway bar mounting brackets! Fox Body sway bar brackets have a common issue during removal where the factory nut plate crumbles when the bolts are broken loose due to the plastic construction. These brackets can also bend which can cause the sway bar to interfere with nearby components in the engine bay. 5.0 Resto's sway bar brackets resolve these issues with heavy-duty materials that are built to last. By retaining the 3-piece design, this kit is a direct replacement for your original brackets.
5.0 Resto Quality
5.0 Resto is dedicated to the preservation of the Fox Body with solution-based products built to last, and this bracket kit is no exception. Featuring a heavy-duty steel construction, the U-brackets in this kit have a center bead and side gussets for reinforcement that prevents flexing. 5.0 Resto includes a new mid-plate to secure your sway bar bushings in place. A redesigned nut plate replaces the factory unit that had pressed in nuts which were prone to strip and spin free. This nut plate is threaded and accepts the grade 10.9 bolts included to make installation quick and easy. A black, E-coat finish is applied to these brackets which resists corrosion for long lasting service life.
Application
Fits 1982-1993 Mustang (Excludes SVO)
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Transcript
79-93 SWAY BAR MOUNTS
What’s up everyone, Jay here with LMR.com. Today we will be covering a new product from 50 Resto, the 79-93 Sway Bar Mounts.
50 Resto has done it again with these brand new sway bar mounts for all 79-93 Fox applications, excluding the 84-86 SVO chassis.
This kit will include everything you need to service the factory sway bar bushing and each mount. These parts are not side specific and can be used on either side.
These will feature heavy-duty steel construction. Each of the U brackets will feature a center bead and side gussets for added strength to prevent flexing.
Each of these kits will include a factory 3 piece design. You will have the main U bracket, mid-plate, and new newly designed nut plate.
These factory nut plates are prone to breakage due to their plastic construction. 99% of the time, these shatter upon removal of the bolts.
All included hardware will be a 10.9 grade for long service life. These brackets will work with all aftermarket bushings that are designed for the stock style sway bars.
Let's head over to our 1993 Hatchback and show you how these go on.
Start by lifting the vehicle via a lift or jacks and jackstands.
Once supported, start by locating each of the factory mounts. As you can see here, our 93 hatch if you may remember, has a Vortech V3 kit with the low mount alternator.
Upon inspection, we found that the factory bracket was severely bent causing contact with the alternator housing. This made it the perfect candidate for these new mounts.
Using a 13mm socket, remove each of the factory u bracket bolts on each side of the sway bar.
Here is where you can see the lackluster factory midplate. Our’s crumbled the moment we broke the bolts loose. This nut on the topside will be a 16mm.
Once you have these removed, you can turn the old bracket to the 6 o’clock position to gain access to the midplate. Using a flat bladed screwdriver, seperate the midplate from the u bracket.
Now you can remove the factory u bracket from the bushing.
At this time you can take a look over your factory sway bar end links and inspect these to see if they need to be replaced. Our’s were still in good shape so we opted to not remove these.
If you do need to pull these off, check out our end link removal video in the description below.
Slide the factory busing down to the center of the bar to gain access to it.
As you can see here, we still had the factory rubber bushings on this one, since we did not remove the endlinks, we used a razor blade and cut the factory bushings off.
Do this for each side.
Once you have everything removed, you can start back with the reassembly process.
You will see the new bushings have a split design. Take a dab of the supplied grease and lubricate the inside edge that will contact the sway bar.
Slip this bushing over the bar and then you can push on the new u bracket into place.
Once the u bracket is in position you can install the new midplate. This will line up to the u bracket and will only install one way.
Repeat these steps on the other side.
Using a jack slowly push up on the center of the swaybar to align the holes in the brackets to the chassis.
Insert the new nut plate on the topside of the factory mount.
The new supplied bolts will be a 15mm, go ahead and loosely thread these in. We had to use a pry bar here to get each side properly aligned. Take your time here so you do cross thread any of the new bolts or nutplate.
Snug each of these bolts evenly until fully tight.
Now you can check over your work and you are all done.
Alright everyone, for years Fox owners have had to scour the junkyard to source these commonly missing or damaged brackets. 50 Resto has solved yet another issue here for the Fox chassis with these new mounts.
Basic hand tools include a socket set, jack, jackstands, and assorted screwdrivers and pry bars.
Install time should take roughly an hour from start to finish.
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